Samidata quote of the day

The Left needs to defend the riots; not to valourise the burning of grannies’ cars, but to make clear that we reject the whole bourgeois construction of events, that we stand in solidarity with the oppressed and that, when it comes to it, we will, without hesitation, join the “rioters” to overthrow the legitimised exploitation, state-sanctioned violence and sham “democracy” that oppress us all.

If someone organised a flashmob riot and burnt his house to the ground in order to overthrow the exploitation, state-sanctioned violence and sham “democracy” that oppresses us all, that would be terrible.

If someone organised a flashmob riot and burnt his house to the ground in order to overthrow the exploitation, state-sanctioned violence and sham “democracy” that oppresses us all, that would be terrible.

To judge strictly by the death toll, these were pretty non-violent riots.

Sure they gave the MSM some great visuals and there’s lots to right about, but if only 4 or 5 people lost their lives in three nights of nationwide rioting, its a pretty low number given all the effort involved.

Hell, Bashir Al Assad, can do that many in a couple of minutes.

I suspect that seen from outside Europe these nice friendly, civilized, wimpy riots just make Europe look decadent.

riots are kind of a desperate reaction
I wish people would react before it’s desperate

No, riots like this are not a ‘desperate’ reaction, they are what happens when a welfare state’s political class hollow out civil society and prevent what remains of that society from defending itself.

I suspect that seen from outside Europe these nice friendly, civilized, wimpy riots just make Europe look decadent.

Then there must be some pretty stupid people outside Europe. This has to be one of the most moronic remarks I have read in quite some time (and that’s saying something). I would have dearly loved to see you in the middle of one of these “civilised, wimpy” riots like I was the other day. Jackass.

the ‘riots’ were pretty puny, $161 million in losses from stolen goods and property damage and 3 dead is not exactly armageddon. still the government will use this as an excuse for pushing all sorts of nonsense like Shutting down social media and banning certain clothing.

One wonders just how perfect society would have to be for Mr. Grig-Spall to agree rioting is the wrong thing to do.

I’m guessing he would turn very quickly against any genuine revolution and also that it wouldn’t matter, because genuine revolutionaries would know enough to send him to the wall as soon as victory is at hand.

The intellectuals share the philosophers’ guilt. The intellectuals – all those whose professions deal with the “humanities” and require a firm philosophical base – have known for a long time that no such base existed. They know that they were functioning in a philosophical vacuum and that the currency they were passing was rubber checks which would bounce, some day, wrecking their culture.

Taylor is coming across as a ‘bit of a dick’, is he? From where I’m standing he’s coming across as the shaft, urethra, corpus cavernosum, glans, frenulum, prepuce and a hefty helping of smegma. Pretty much the whole nine yards (or in his case no doubt, the whole four inches.)

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